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At a plenary session at the Hall this morning (August 20), the National Assembly heard reports on law projects in the criminal field. Download General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Public Security, presented a presentation on two projects: Penal Code (amended); Law on Organization of Criminal Investigation Agencies (amended) - Photo: chinphu.vn/Nhat Bac Specifically, the National Assembly heard General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Public Security authorized by the Prime Minister, present a presentation on two projects: Penal Code (amended); Law on Organization of Criminal Investigation Agencies (amended); listen to the Chief Procurator of the Supreme Peoples Procuracy present the Proposal on the project of the Criminal Procedure Code (amended). While ensuring humanity and leniency, as well as ensuring deterrence and severity, the Penal Code (amended) is built to continue institutionalizing the Partys guidelines, guidelines and policies on crime prevention and combat in the context of building and perfecting the Vietnamese socialist rule-of-law state in the new, breakthrough period of scientific and technological development. technology, innovation and national digital transformation, international integration, ensuring both humanity and leniency, deterrence and severity, effectively contributing to protecting the regime, protecting human rights, protecting the interests of the State and organizations, contributing to protecting social order and safety, promoting the development of a socialist-oriented market economy, ensuring that everyone can live in a safe and healthy social and ecological environment. Law built on the viewpoint: Ensuring the Partys comprehensive leadership in building and perfecting criminal law; Fully and promptly institutionalize the Partys views, policies and guidelines on crime prevention and combat, judicial reform, innovation, development of the private economy, state economy, environmental protection... Respect, protect and ensure human rights and civil rights; Taking people as the center, ensuring basic principles such as equality before the law, presumption of innocence, differentiating criminal liability, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of subjects in society. Closely combining strict punishment with leniency and humanity. Particularly dangerous, organized, and transnational crimes need to be handled strictly; At the same time, expand the application of leniency policies to those who commit less serious crimes, honestly declare, actively cooperate with competent authorities, actively overcome consequences and compensate for damages. Stick closely to reality, proactively forecast crime trends. Amendments and supplements must come from practical requirements of fighting crime, and at the same time forecasting types of crime in the new situation, especially in the fields of high technology, finance, environment, and resource exploitation. Ensuring clarity, transparency, inheritance and feasibility of legal regulations. The provisions of the Penal Code (amended) must be specific, easy to understand, easy to apply, minimize inference, and ensure strict and consistent legislative techniques; Inheriting appropriate provisions of the current Penal Code. Ensuring reasonable separation of criminal and administrative responsibilities. It is necessary to clearly distinguish between crimes and administrative and disciplinary violations; between different dangerous levels of behavior, thereby applying appropriate sanctions, ensuring fairness and effectiveness in handling. Selectively absorb international experience. Reference to international legislative standards and experiences needs to be made on a basis consistent with Vietnams political, economic, social conditions and legal traditions. The draft Code includes 3 parts, 25 chapters, 415 articles; Compared to the 2015 Penal Code (amended and supplemented in 2017, 2024, 2025), 8 laws were removed, 14 new laws were added, 307 laws were amended, and 100 laws were retained. The draft has amended and supplemented regulations related to crimes; amend and supplement regulations on penalties; amend and supplement regulations on exclusion of criminal liability, postponement of criminal prosecution, exemption of criminal liability and statute of limitations for criminal prosecution; Amend the provisions of the Code to ensure uniformity, uniformity, feasibility and legislative techniques;...Consolidate the system of investigation agencies. The Law Project on Organization of Criminal Investigation Agencies (amended) was developed and promulgated to institutionalize the Partys policies and viewpoints; strengthen the investigation agency system; Complete regulations on investigative tasks, powers and authority; Resolve problems and inadequacies in practice. The guiding viewpoint on amending the Law is the Partys institutional policy and viewpoint on organizational arrangement and State apparatus, concretizing the 2013 Constitution; Inheriting appropriate regulations, overcoming problems and inadequacies in practice. Regarding the scope of regulation, the Law stipulates the principles of criminal investigation organization, organizational apparatus, tasks and powers of Investigation Agencies and agencies assigned to conduct a number of investigative activities; Investigators and other positions in criminal investigation, assignment, coordination and control relationships in criminal investigation activities, ensuring conditions for criminal investigation activities andresponsibilities of relevant agencies, organizations and individuals. The laws applicable subjects are: Investigation agencies, agencies assigned to conduct a number of investigation activities; Heads, Deputy Heads, Investigators, Investigation Officers of the Investigation Agency; heads, deputies and investigation officers of agencies assigned to conduct a number of investigation activities; relevant agencies, organizations and individuals. Ensuring human
